Looking for easy, playful alternatives for those moments when you feel the kids have been switched onto screens for more time than you intended? This list of 45 playful ideas primarily utilises bits and bobs from around your home and it’s great for preschoolers through to those in second or third grade. The list is […]
A Month of Under the Sea Inspired Play
This month’s print and play planner is inspired by under the sea adventures! You’ll find the download and print instructions below, as well as a list of handy links to support a number of the activities included in the calendar. Under the Sea Play Ideas & Resources 25+ Ocean Books for Kids: Fiction & Non […]
Learn With Play eBook:150+ Play Activities for Year Round Learning
Today I am to share the Learn With Play: 150+ Activities for Year Round Fun & Learning eBook. Co-authored by more than 90 play and learning bloggers from all around the world (including me!), Learn With Play includes over 150 activities for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten aged children. It includes oodles of… fun play […]
8 Quick-to-Prepare Classic Play Ideas for Preschoolers
One thing I keep reminding myself is that my 3 year old doesn’t need difficult or complicated play ideas. She’s 3 and it’s the simple, classic play ideas that she likes best! So today I am sharing eight classic play ideas that each take less than 10 minutes to prepare. They’re fun for preschoolers and […]
Best of 2014: 30 Great Ways to Play and Learn
My vision for Childhood 101 has always been to share simple ideas for making playful learning fun for kids and uncomplicated for parents and teachers and as I looked back over 2014’s list of popular posts I was excited to see so many of my favourite Play & Learn ideas right there at the top […]
50 Preschool Boredom Busters + Printable Play Planner
I recently shared a post about the importance of being prepared with a list of easy-to-pull together activity ideas for those times when your children need a little redirection into purposeful activity. With many in the Northern hemisphere embarking on summer vacation and us on the cooler side of the world starting our mid-year school […]
Best of 2013: Play & Learn
What a year 2013 has been and how quickly it has flown by! I just look at AJ’s seemingly overnight transformation from a baby to a toddler to see what an amazing year we have had. It has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs but isn’t that just life with kids, especially when they […]
Play Grow Learn: Big Adventures for Pint-Sized Explorers
The latest edition of Play Grow Learn is here! And this issue is the BIGGEST and the BEST yet! Filled with ideas for BIG Adventures for Pint-Sized Explorers, this 70 page fully downloadable e-magazine includes activity ideas and resources for parents and educators of children who love to have fun. With contributions from inspiring mamas, […]
6 Ways to Play with Toy Cars
One or two toy cars quickly became ten, and then twenty, and now we have so many cars we barely have room to store them! Over the years our ever expanding collection of toy cars has been enjoyed with by all our four children, and currently our youngest, three year old Noah, is totally obsessed […]
100 Days of Play: Creative Thinking Fun
Providing regular opportunities for children to think creatively encourages them to be receptive to innovation and invention, and to be open to alternatives when learning, solving problems and facing new situations. This simple game encourages children to brainstorm and use divergent thinking as they attempt to think of many different ways of using a common […]
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